Water firm upgrades archiving system

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Victorian water company Western Water has chosen an electronic
document management system from Queensland's Advance Data
Integration to simplify data access across the company.

In a statement, the company said it picked DataWorks over an
existing system from InfoVision because DataWorks supported a
number of advanced features.

"Our goal is to convert all our existing documents to electronic
format, and within three years to be running a fully electronic
document management system," Western Water IT manager Dave McDonald
said.

Mr McDonald said the industry's strict regulations meant that it
was necessary to have documentation, both new and old, which was
easy to recall.

An examination of the existing system found that a wholesale
upgrade to a new system would serve the company's needs better, he
said.

Western Water will convert documents from the existing system to
the new one and then make the documents available to all its staff
- who number over 100 - and its mobile depots and vehicles.

Mr McDonald said the new system would go live before the end of
the year.